DrPainMD:FTA: "Attorney Robin Ficker says Mount Carmel Area School District officials labeled the girl a "terrorist threat" for the bubble gun remark, made Jan. 10 as both girls waited for a school bus."

Ya know, if I got called to jury duty, and the case involved somebody killing this lawyer or the school administrator who made the suspension decision, I would have to vote not guilty. The planet would be so much better without those people.

ReverendJasen:Those bubble guns are fully automatic too. They'll keep shooting as long you hold the trigger down. Add to that, the amount of soapy water they hold is far greater than any standard handgun. It's like having a 1000 round clip in the thing!

Please for the safety of elementary schools everywhere, join me in support of bublegun regulations. No one but a criminal needs an automatic bubblegun with unlimited rounds.

Also, you need to add a regulation about the type of rounds used. We don't want any of that eye stinging soap used. Civilians should only have tear free.

Day_Old_Dutchie:School systems should be run by intelligent, rational-thinking individuals.

As long as we continue to take the easy and lazy way out put these low-IQ morons and two-bit "sleazy car salesmen" politicians in the position of running the education system, we'll see these absolutely bonehead decisions over and over.

Do you honestly think it is so simple? We hear about issues all across the US, and you believe that the issue is all admins are stupid? The issue is that school boards are easily pressured by parents, and the loudest and most irrational parents have a disproportionate amount of influence. It is very easy to sit on the outside and say 'I don't agree with that decision', but not so easy to do so from within the system.

Of all the issues with education, ineffective administration is more of a symptom than a cause.

spentmiles:Times are certainly changing. A generation ago, bullied five year old's would've had to swallow their emotions, leading to farked up and frustrated lives. Nowadays, with our twenty-four hour coverage of mass shootings, we've given these kids role models and infomercials on how to execute crowds of people. I'd say that guns are probably harder to get a hold of now than they were twenty, thirty years ago due to the gun safety campaigns. It's the understanding that these things can be done that's made the difference.

The news coverage of these things has had a porn-effect on society. Remember when you were a kid and could jerk off to some scrap of magazine you randomly found on the side of the road, probably thrown out by some trucker? Then one day you get a hold of a full magazine and think you've made it. Next, it's a worn out VHS porno from your dad's stint in the Navy with poor tracking. Then it's a live sex show in Amsterdam. With the internet, you can now progress much faster through the perversion process. Bottom line - you can't go back and be satisfied with that roadside scrap of paper.

It's the same thing with murder and the media. It used to be that a fist fight would make the news. I remember when a single shooting would make the paper, the television, and the radio. The media wore it out though, especially as we transitioned from network to cable news. A single shooting just doesn't have any entertainment value to the public anymore, unless it's someone noteworthy. Small scale shootings don't get airtime. Mass killings, especially the "this can happen to you at any time or place variety", are now the only things interesting enough to raise our interest sensors. Anything less is just noise.

The problem with this is that we'll never be able to go back to being satisfied with a stabbing, a single, shooting, a small act of violence. And what's worse is that the mass killings are going to wear off eventually too. We'll need something even ...

lack of warmth:ReverendJasen: Those bubble guns are fully automatic too. They'll keep shooting as long you hold the trigger down. Add to that, the amount of soapy water they hold is far greater than any standard handgun. It's like having a 1000 round clip in the thing!

Please for the safety of elementary schools everywhere, join me in support of bublegun regulations. No one but a criminal needs an automatic bubblegun with unlimited rounds.

Also, you need to add a regulation about the type of rounds used. We don't want any of that eye stinging soap used. Civilians should only have tear free.

And if her home has indoor plumbing, she is basically stockpiling ammo. I'm smelling a 'no-knock warrant' in her (or, accidentally, her next-door neighbor's) future.

RickN99:lack of warmth: ReverendJasen: Those bubble guns are fully automatic too. They'll keep shooting as long you hold the trigger down. Add to that, the amount of soapy water they hold is far greater than any standard handgun. It's like having a 1000 round clip in the thing!

Please for the safety of elementary schools everywhere, join me in support of bublegun regulations. No one but a criminal needs an automatic bubblegun with unlimited rounds.

Also, you need to add a regulation about the type of rounds used. We don't want any of that eye stinging soap used. Civilians should only have tear free.

And if her home has indoor plumbing, she is basically stockpiling ammo. I'm smelling a 'no-knock warrant' in her (or, accidentally, her next-door neighbor's) future.

.Its too easy to make your own bubbles. We need to begin requiring a license for the dish detergents

Mr. Breeze:spentmiles: Times are certainly changing. A generation ago, bullied five year old's would've had to swallow their emotions, leading to farked up and frustrated lives. Nowadays, with our twenty-four hour coverage of mass shootings, we've given these kids role models and infomercials on how to execute crowds of people. I'd say that guns are probably harder to get a hold of now than they were twenty, thirty years ago due to the gun safety campaigns. It's the understanding that these things can be done that's made the difference.

The news coverage of these things has had a porn-effect on society. Remember when you were a kid and could jerk off to some scrap of magazine you randomly found on the side of the road, probably thrown out by some trucker? Then one day you get a hold of a full magazine and think you've made it. Next, it's a worn out VHS porno from your dad's stint in the Navy with poor tracking. Then it's a live sex show in Amsterdam. With the internet, you can now progress much faster through the perversion process. Bottom line - you can't go back and be satisfied with that roadside scrap of paper.

It's the same thing with murder and the media. It used to be that a fist fight would make the news. I remember when a single shooting would make the paper, the television, and the radio. The media wore it out though, especially as we transitioned from network to cable news. A single shooting just doesn't have any entertainment value to the public anymore, unless it's someone noteworthy. Small scale shootings don't get airtime. Mass killings, especially the "this can happen to you at any time or place variety", are now the only things interesting enough to raise our interest sensors. Anything less is just noise.

The problem with this is that we'll never be able to go back to being satisfied with a stabbing, a single, shooting, a small act of violence. And what's worse is that the mass killings are going to wear off eventually too. We'll need som ...

Normally Spent does satire, but occasionally he diverts into intelligent commentary for a change of pace.

Well, said too Spent. I've frequently pointed out humanities inherently self-destructive nature. We're users, consumers, that are competitive to the point of suicidal. Eventually the competition becomes too stressful, too difficult for one of us and it results in that one lashing out at whatever it feels it can destroy.

Once again zero tolerance equals zero common sense. Sadly schools seem to love the zero tolerance crap as it makes things easy for them and they got an excuse if it blows up in their faces which it all to often does due to the lack of common sense.

grimlock1972:Once again zero tolerance equals zero common sense. Sadly schools seem to love the zero tolerance crap as it makes things easy for them and they got an excuse if it blows up in their faces which it all to often does due to the lack of common sense.

What's amazing is these teachers and school administrators handle all the nonsense that arises from zero tolerance and still have time to keep our students competitive with the rest of the world. Oh wait...

I blame the school and the parents here for this level of stupidity. If I had a kid and he came running to me and said, "Betsy said she was going to shoot me with a bubble gun!" I would give her a squirt gun and tell her to go defend herself.

grimlock1972:Once again zero tolerance equals zero common sense. Sadly schools seem to love the zero tolerance crap as it makes things easy for them and they got an excuse if it blows up in their faces which it all to often does due to the lack of common sense.

FTA: Ficker says the girl didn't even have the bubble gun with her and has never fired a real gun. He says she's "the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania."

So, the little girl didn't even have the bubblegun in her possession at the time? The other little girl (read as 'victim) ran screaming to a teacher or other person of authority with this: "Teacher! Teacher! Sally [real name withheld to protect her from, uh, something] said she's gonna murder me down with bubbles . . . and I'm afraid!"

vabeard:What kind of parents instills the notion that shooting someone is okay in a 5 year old?

If my 3 year old Grandson picks up a large stick, it becomes a club, if he picks up a small stick, he will point it and say pow pow pow. I think it was ingrained in his genes, he will never survive kindergarten.

smitty04:vabeard: What kind of parents instills the notion that shooting someone is okay in a 5 year old?

If my 3 year old Grandson picks up a large stick, it becomes a club, if he picks up a small stick, he will point it and say pow pow pow. I think it was ingrained in his genes, he will never survive kindergarten.